Alicia Svigals was born on 1963 and is an American violinist and composer.
10 Facts About Alicia Svigals
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Alicia Svigals, violinist, composer and vocalist, was born in 1963 in The Bronx, New York City and studied ethnomusicology at Brown University.
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Alicia Svigals has performed with and written for violinist Itzhak Perlman, and has worked with the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Debbie Friedman and Chava Albershteyn.
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Alicia Svigals has taught klezmer to hundreds of students around the world over the past two decades, including violinists Steven Greenman and Itzhak Perlman.
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Alicia Svigals was one of the founders in 1986 of the band the Klezmatics, and co-led the ensemble until 2001.
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Alicia Svigals has been commissioned to compose for the Kronos Quartet, as well as recording for the television series The L Word.
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Alicia Svigals was awarded the Foundation for Jewish Culture's 2013 New Jewish Culture Network commission for her original score to the 1918 silent Pola Negri film The Yellow Ticket.
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Alicia Svigals is featured on recordings by such Hasidic artists such as Avraham Fried and Lipa Schmeltzer.
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Alicia Svigals has collaborated with 'second generation' author Thane Rosenbaum, whose novel The Golems of Gotham is based in part on Svigals.
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Alicia Svigals is featured on Herb Alpert's 2008 recording of the Yiddish theater song "Belz", arranged by Marvin Hamlisch.